Notices by C.Cameron (cameron@linuxrocks.online), page 9

Oh no! Cuteness! 🐶 🐺

This is intriguing. I would love a simple, not-expensive smart phone that does the basics and respects privacy. I hope the Pine Phone and Librem 5 both are wildly successful.

https://fossbytes.com/pinephone-pine64-affordable-linux-smartphone-kde-plasma/

@ajdunevent Okay, you just blew my mind with that, I didn't know it either! I'm kind of in a vacuum, my friends aren't into Linux, so I just figure things out as I can. This is why I love Mastodon!

After a while I feel like which distro I use isn't that big a deal, but I always love learning new apps and new smart ways to do stuff! 😀

@ChrisWere
Ha! I failed. I'm ashamed at my lack of distro logo knowledge. Quizzes are fun though.

Today's "find," that everyone else probably knew about forever: Aptitude.

I like using the command line but want a "start menu" so I can peruse apps. Memorizing program names in their exact syntax is the biggest block to the command line for me. If I don't use a program for a little while I just forget that it exists, or have to do a whole internet search to find where the hyphens are so I can launch it. Aptitude helps.

I went on a mushroom walk today, and harvested some and it was the best time. Chantarelles are so tasty.

@artixx
Ha! Yeah, that's not long. But it's such a sweet design! And battery life!

@Gargron
I listen to long podcasts while I drive, or do boring work projects, or the dishes.

@kelbot
I'd say 13-14" ideally, for me. I had a 13" macbook air (running Linux obviously) for years, and the size was fine, but then I stumbled into a great deal on a 15" System 76 machine. I was afraid it would be too big, but it's not that heavy, and I like having the extra screen space.

@kelbot

That's cool. I'd like to do something like this and use it to replace the smart phone as much as possible.

Today in adorable, impractical, outdated gadgets: The Apple Newton Emate 300.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300

Love it. It does the same thing as my Alphasmart, so I hardly need it, but if I ever find one for $5, it's mine!

@omnipotens I was using Evolution and it worked really well. I fell back into Thunderbird only because I have stuff more fully set up there, not because anything was wrong with Evolution.

@matt
Yeah sometimes. But I love Data anyway.

@matt True! Except when Data goes rogue and can duplicate voices. I guess no system is 100%. :)

Who else gets concerned about ship security when officers on Star Trek speak their passwords aloud to the whole room?

@art
Right there with you!

@MereLinuxMortal @DorianDotSlash

Totally! I was a ridiculous distro hopper for several years. I made myself settle down and commit a few months ago, so I could do actual work, not just twiddle with operating systems. But now I'm getting squirmy again. :)

@DorianDotSlash If I get a little extra harddrive space, I absolutely will! I used to have six different partitions on my machine to try all the distros, and that's ridiculous, so I had to cut myself off. But this will restart the whole addiction!

It's pretty silly that I am now, after seven years of working with Linux, I'm discovering that Virtual Box is pretty cool.